This document contains information regarding state and federal programs that provide transportation project funding of interest to local governments and other entities. This information is intended to serve as a guide for preliminary funding searches. For more detail, we encourage you to contact each of the respective agencies and departments listed in this guide. This guide has been formulated and assembled with the help of the Alabama Department of Transportation Local Transportation Bureau and the Alabama Transportation Assistance Program (Alabama’s LTAP Center) within Auburn University.
High risk rural roads are defined as those roadways that are functionally classified as rural major collectors, rural minor collectors, or rural local roads with a significant safety risk. The High Risk Rural Roads Program (HRRR) is intended to help reduce high fatal and incapacitating injury crash rates by alleviating safety deficiencies on rural roads by utilizing low-cost safety counter measures such as rumble strips, enhanced signage and delineation, clear zone improvements, shoulder widening, front slope flattening, and cross slope / superelevation corrections.
The Transportation Alternative Set-Aside Program (TAP) is intended to provide safe routes for pedestrians and other non-motorized forms of transportation. These can include sidewalks, bicycle infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle signals, traffic calming techniques, lighting, safety-related infrastructure, as well as projects to achieve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core Federal-aid program with the purpose to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State-owned roads and roads on tribal land. The HSIP requires a data-driven, strategic approach to improving highway safety on all public roads with a focus on performance.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) State Assistance Program was established by the LWCF Act of 1965 to stimulate a nationwide action program to assist in preserving, developing, and assuring to all citizens of the United States of present and future generations such quality and quantity of outdoor recreation resources as may be available and are necessary and desirable for individual active participation. The Program provides matching grants to States and through States to local units of government, for the acquisition and development of public outdoor recreation sites and facilities.
The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) was created in 1998 and is funded through the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The Department of Economic and Community Affairs is the state agency responsible for administering the program in Alabama. The program provides grant assistance to state and federal agencies and local units of government for the acquisition and/or development/improvement of recreational trails and trail related resources.
The Alabama Transportation Funding Guide is a tool compiled by the Alabama Transportation Assistance Program to help local governments with initial searches about funding opportunities available. If you are aware of a transportation-related funding source that could be of interest to Alabama local agencies, please download, fill and submit the following form to atap@auburn.edu
